Late Antique Historiography

Portraits

Title(s):
  • Portraits
Author:
Period covered:
Early 4th c.-author's time?
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
  • Poetry (general)
Remarks:
Eighty portraits of contemporaries in epigrammatic form were included. Symmachus invites his son, the famous orator, to contribute some.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Symmachus, Letter 1.2-4
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • H. Bardon (1956) La littérature latine inconnue: L'époque impériale: 279.
  • J.-P. Callu (1972) Symmaque: Correspondance. Volume One: Books I-II (Collection des Universités de France). Paris.
  • Al. Cameron (2011) The last pagans of Rome. Oxford: 371-372.